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TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.

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DQnDV TIL in 2017, a team of scholars, linguists, and computer scientists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 Italian novels written by 40 authors. They used different methods to determine that Domenico Starnone, a male writer, is the probable author of the Elena Ferrante novels.
8wDa TIL pumpkin seeds have quite a bit of tryptophan, and may help with anxiety disorders.
WkyVL TIL technology already exists that lets one eavesdrop on a conversation across soundproof glass, without even seeing the speakers' mouths. Tiny vibrations caused by the sound on nearby objects like a houseplant or bag of chips can be used to derive the original sound/conversation.
j6Een TIL: A southern France firefighters' department statistic attributes 16% of local bushfires to cigarette litter thrown out of moving vehicles
xk0B TIL that as far back as 1928, Russia was building analog water computers that were used for highly complex computations, and remained in use up into the 1980’s.